Engineers Ireland offers free maths grinds for leaving cert students

With the school year underway, Engineers Ireland has announced it is to offer maths grinds to higher-level Leaving Certificate Maths students from Saturday 25th of September until the Easter holidays.

The grinds, which are free of charge, will be held by Tim Joyce at the Engineers Ireland offices, 22 Clyde Road, Ballsbridge from 11am to 2pm every Saturday, beginning September 25th up until Easter weekend. The grinds will be for honours maths students sitting the Leaving Certificate this summer and will be pre-recorded to allow students to review sessions afterwards. Students must register online at www.engineersireland.ie/mathsgrinds to book their attendance as places are limited.

John Power said: 'we are delighted to be able to announce that Engineers Ireland will be offering students free maths grinds again for the year ahead following the success last year of Tim’s sessions. The recent leaving cert results highlighted that maths is still a difficult subject for many students, even those at higher-level. At Engineers Ireland we are committed to helping in any way we can the understanding of maths and the way in which it is taught. For those who can’t attend the grinds in person, I encourage them to avail of the online tutorials on www.engineersireland.ie.'

Tim Joyce, Chartered Engineer, and guest lecturer to final engineering students in both UCD and NUI Galway will be giving the grinds at Engineers Ireland. Speaking today Mr Joyce, said: 'the grinds will focus on the real-life applicability of maths concepts with the pre-records giving students flexibility as time pressures build up ahead of the exams in June. Engineers have a good practical approach to things and have gained experience in using mathematics in their work.  This should allow us remove, at least some of, the barriers that many students have by helping them understand the real value and applicability of the methods they are now learning.  This may also allow them make the step from learning theory and methods to becoming adept at applying it to solve the problems presented in the exam.  As a consequence, working through questions from past Leaving Certificates must form a big part of our effort. The focus will be to provide value-added sessions for students.'

For further information on the free maths grinds log onto the Engineers Ireland website at www.engineersireland.ie/mathsgrinds.